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Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying organizes 4000 village level camps across Aspirational Districts for awareness on Entrepreneurship schemes for Inclusive Development on 22nd and 23rd February, 2023
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- Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala addressed farmers and informed them about the National Livestock Mission  and Rashtriya Gokul Mission schemes
- Secretary, AHD emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship development and breed improvement in rural poultry, sheep, goat, and piggery, including feed and fodder development
- The overarching vision of the Department is to enhance livestock productivity in a sustainable and profitable manner
- Around 2 lakh farmers joined the awareness program virtually from Common Service Centers
Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying addressing farmers connected through camps
As part of Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahostav, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying organized awareness Programmes on Entrepreneurship and other beneficiary-oriented schemes of the Department through Common Service Centres network by holding 4000 village level camps across the Aspirational Districts. Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying chaired the meeting on 22.02.2023 and 23.02.2023 respectively. Attendees were given complete information about these schemes, as well as how to apply on the scheme portal through the CSC itself. Around 2 lakh farmers joined the awareness Programme virtually from Common Service Centers.
Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala addressed the farmers connected through camps and informed that as the National Livestock Mission and Rashtriya Gokul Mission schemes now have a component of breeder farm entrepreneurs and fodder entrepreneurs. National Livestock Mission  will help in creating rural Entrepreneurship and help in creating better livelihood opportunity for unemployed youth and livestock farmers in the Cattle, Dairy, poultry, sheep, goat, piggery, feed and fodder sector paving the way towards Atma Nirbhar Bharat.
Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying interacting with farmers
During the interaction with farmers, Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, Animal Husbandry and Dairying emphasized that these schemes will bring sharp focus on entrepreneurship development and breed improvement in rural poultry, sheep, goat and piggery including feed and fodder development. The Government is implementing various schemes/programmes to enhance poultry productivity, milk and meat production, for attaining nutritional security, employment generation and economic prosperity for the country. The overarching vision of the Department for the sector correlates to enhancement in productivity of livestock in a sustainable and profitable manner. The impact and success of the schemes were explained with the help of presentations and videos.
Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister to Visit Jalpaiguri, West Bengal tomorrow
Prime Minister to lay the foundation stone for a National Highways project worth Rs 1938 Crore in Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal
PM to Inaugurate New High Court Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Jalpaiguri on 8 Feb 2019. He will lay the foundation stone for the four laning of the Falakata - Salsalabari section of NH -31 D there. This 41.7 km long section of National Highways falls in the Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal, and will be constructed at a cost of about Rs 1938 Crore.
The project will reduce the distance from Salsalabari and Alipurduar to Siliguri by nearly 50 km. This is significant as better access to Siliguri means better access to railways and airways. The National Highway will facilitate better movement of tea and other agricultural produce from the region to markets. The improved connectivity will also lead to an increase in tourism in the region. All this in turn will give a major boost to socio-economic activity in the state, opening up employment opportunities for the local people.
The National Highway will incorporate all necessary safety features to provide relief to road users. There will be 3 Railway Over Bridges, 2 Flyovers, 3 Vehicular Underpasses, 8 Major Bridges and 17 Minor Bridges on this section of National Highway.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will also inaugurate New High Court Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri. The Circuit bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri will provide speedy justice to people of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar in North Bengal. Residents of these four districts will now have to travel less than 100 km to access the bench instead of 600 km trip to Calcutta High Court.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh Vardhan meets delegation of doctors; Condemns assaults and assures support to providing a safe working environment
Appeals for restraint among patients and doctors
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare today met a delegation of Resident Doctors Association of AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, United Resident & Doctors Association of India  and Federation of Resident Doctors Association , who gave a representation to the Health Minister on the violence against doctors in West Bengal. Expressing deep concern, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said, “I strongly condemn the unruly behavior and assault against doctors. I will discuss it with the Chief Minister of Bengal.” In a letter written to Ms. Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of Bengal, Dr. Harsh Vardhan urged her to ensure an amicable end to the agitation and provide a secure working environment to the doctors. He stated that the ongoing strike is causing severe hardship to the patients across the country and has adversely impacted healthcare services.
The Union Health Minister further stated that he will discuss the matter of providing safety to hospitals with the Home Ministry and also take up this matter with the Chief Ministers and Health Ministers of other States so that such incidents can be avoided in the future and doctors are provided a safe work environment. “The States should take all possible preventive and deterrent measures, as deemed required so that a peaceful environment prevails and doctors and clinical establishments discharge their duties and professional pursuit without fear or any violence and attacks on them. Together we shall ensure safe and cordial environment for doctors and patients,” he added.
While appealing to the doctors, particularly in the State of West Bengal, Dr. Harsh Vardhan stated, “Doctors should resort to other simple and symbolic ways to protest. As medical professionals their duty is towards protecting the rights of their patients. Strike is certainly not the best way to protest. Patients should not be deprived of immediate and emergency healthcare facilities.”
Dr. Harsh Vardhan also urged all patients and their family members to support doctors in performing their duties and professional pursuits in a peaceful and dedicated manner and not to resort to violence. “Doctors are an integral pillar of the society and often work under stressful and difficult conditions. I appeal to all patients and their caregivers to observe restraint”, Dr. Harsh Vardhan stated.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan also appealed to the State governments that all such cases of violence need to be investigated promptly to ensure that criminals get prosecuted in a time bound manner.
Ministry of Tourism
Shri Prahlad Singh Patel attends the session on ‘Making Khajuraho–as Iconic Tourist Destination’ in Khajuraho
The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, is organizing ‘Meet in India’, a MICE Road-show at ‘Maharaja Chhatrasal Convention Centre’, Khajuraho from the 25th to 27th March, 2021. The welcome ceremony of the event was held on 26th March, 2021; during which Shri Amresh Tiwari, Vice Chairman of ‘India Convention Promotion Bureau’  made a presentation on the future of MICE Industry in the country followed by another presentation by Ms. Sonia Meena, Addl. Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board wherein multiple tourist attractions of Madhya Pradesh were showcased. In his keynote address, Shri Ashwani Lohani, CEO GMR Group said that Madhya Pradesh is truly the heartland of India and has immense potential to attract tourists. He also threw light on the changes happening in the field of tourism post Covid. Shri Arvind Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism in his address said that the Ministry of Tourism is eager to create hand holdings between different stakeholders and act as a catalyst to develop tourism in the country.
The second session of the day was held on ‘Making Khajuraho – as Iconic Tourist Destination’ during which a detailed presentation on the master plan of Khajuraho was made by Shri Jay Kaktikar, Partner, Design Associates. The Minister  saw the presentation and deliberated the same in detail. Thereafter, various local stakeholders and local media also presented their views on development aspects of Khajuraho and gave their feedback and comments on the Master Plan of Khajuraho.
Thereafter, various aspects to develop and promote Khajuraho as an Iconic Destination covering cultural, natural and heritage offerings of the destinations and surrounding attractions were also discussed. The session was attended by Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister , GoI; Shri Arvind Singh, Secretary , GoI; Shri Sheo Shekhar Shukla, Principal Secretary , Government of Madhya Pradesh; Shri Abinash Manghani CEO Welcome Heritage; Dr. Navina Jafa, Cultural Techno Crat; Shri G. Kamala Vardhana Rao, Chairman & Managing Director, ITD and Shri Pranab Sarkar. The session was moderated by Shri Gaurav Taneja, Senior Partner & Leader from Ernst & Young.
Ministry of Tourism
Tourism Minister to launch first ever guidelines by government on Adventure Tourism tomorrow
The Government is for the first time issuing guidelines for Adventure Tourism in India. These guidelines will be launched by the Minister of State for Tourism , Shri. K. J. Alphons, at an event in New Delhi on 31st May 2018. The guidelines on Safety and Quality Norms for Adventure Tourism in India have been formulated along with the Adventure Tour Operators Association of India .
In an effort to make adventure sports safer, the set of guidelines list out the basic minimum standards required for adventure tourism activities in India. Adventure tourism has grown rapidly over the past few years playing a vital role in the economic growth of India as well as attracting a large number of travellers from across the globe to the country. The sole aim of this initiative is to help adventure tour operators understand and execute safety guidelines in a better manner. These guidelines cover land, air and water based activities which include mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, paragliding, kayaking, scuba diving, snorkeling, river rafting and many other sports.
The Ministry of Tourism along with ATOAI and all the tourism stakeholders are committed for India to be looked at as one of the best adventure tourism destinations, with a strong safety management system in place.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
DoPT’s online Corona course has over 2,90,000 training courses and 1,83,000 users within two weeks of it’s launch: Dr.Jitendra Singh
DoPT  online Corona course is receiving huge response and within two weeks of its launching, over 2,90,000 training courses have been initiated and over 1,83,000 users have registered on the platform.
Disclosing this here today to the media, Union Minister of State  of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region , MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that in a novel experiment, possibly the first of its kind, DoPT had introduced a module for empowering frontline Corona Warriors through the learning platform https://igot.gov.in. What was envisaged to be an online medium to equip the frontline Corona Warriors with training and updates in coping with the Covid pandemic has in fact proved to be a unique success story which would possibly be emulated in different forms in the times to come, he said.
It was further informed that the exclusive platform has been providing training modules on flexi - time and on - site basis so that Covid response can be delivered at scale to the smart phones. A dedicated android based app for this purpose has also been launched and can be downloaded using the link https://bit.ly/dikshaigot.
The Covid learning platform is based on Prime Minister Sh Narendra Modi’s vision to empower the frontline warriors and also to protect them from falling prey to the Covid pandemic by equipping them with the right kind of knowledge. The training contents of the course include Basics of COVID, clinical management, ICU care management, infection prevention and care, usage of PPE, quarantine and isolation, training for NCC cadets, management of COVID 19 cases, laboratory sample collection and testing, psychological care of patients, paediatric care in COVID, pregnancy during COVID, etc.
The new learning content is being regularly added to the module and the training modules are designed to cater to the training requirements of 18 sets of roles ranging from Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics and Police Organisations to Nehru YuvaKendras, Anganwadi and ASHA workers.
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President of India pays floral tributes to Dr A. P. J. Abdul kalam on his Birth anniversary
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, paid floral tributes to Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India on his birth anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan today . Officers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan also paid tributes on the occasion.
Ministry of Science & Technology
New biodegradable polymer fabricated using guar gum, and chitosan has high potential for packaging material
A team of Indian scientists have developed an environmentally friendly, non-toxic, biodegradable polymer using guar gum and chitosan, both of which are polysaccharides extracted from guar beans and shells of crab and shrimps. The fabricated guar gum-chitosan film having high water stability, high mechanical strength, and excellent resistance to harsh environmental conditions can potentially be used in packaging applications.
Polysaccharide is one of the biopolymers with high potential for use in synthesis of packaging material. However, due to some drawbacks of polysaccharides, such as low mechanical properties, high water-solubility, and low barrier properties, they are not preferred.
In order to overcome these challenges of polysaccharide, Dr. Devasish Chowdhury, Associate Professor, and Sazzadur Rahman, Inspire Junior Research Fellow, fabricated a guar gum-chitosan composite film which is a cross-linked polysaccharide without using any plasticizer with the help of a method called the solution casting method . The fabricated biopolymer composite film had high water stability, high mechanical strength, and excellent resistance to harsh environmental conditions. This work has been published recently in the journal ‘Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications’.
The researchers found that the fabricated crosslinked film did not dissolve in water even after 240 hours. In addition, the mechanical strength of crosslinked guar gum-chitosan composite film was higher compared to general biopolymer . The cross-linked guar gum-chitosan composite film was also highly water repellent or hydrophobic due to its high contact angle of 92.8º. It had low water vapor permeability when compared with the film made only from chitosan.
The superior mechanical strength, water repellent properties, and resistance to harsh environmental conditions of the fabricated cross-linked guar gum-chitosan increase its potential of being used in packaging applications.
Publication link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpta.2021.100158.
For more details, Dr. Devasish Chowdhury IASST  can be contacted.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Government takes several initiatives to enhance collaboration between small business and e-commerce platforms
Drives being conducted under One District – One Product  initiative across States to facilitate on-boarding on e-Commerce platforms
Special focus being placed on onboarding artisans and handicraftsmen, especially those manufacturing Geographical Indication  goods and toys
Government has taken several initiatives to enhance collaboration between small business and e-commerce platforms.
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs , Department of Revenue has exempted sellers of specified handicraft goods made by craftsmen from obtaining compulsory registration under GST Act, thus enabling collaboration between small businesses and e-commerce platforms.
Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade  has actively engaged with various large e-commerce platforms to onboard artisans and handicraftsmen, including those engaged in manufacture of Geographical Indication  goods and toys. Further, under the One District – One Product  initiative, drives have been conducted across various States, facilitating on-boarding of sellers of identified products on e-Commerce platforms to provide greater visibility for small businesses from rural sector.
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises  has taken multiple initiatives for enhancing participation of small business in e-commerce which include:
• Procurement and Marketing Support  Scheme: Under this Scheme, the sub-component of “Adoption of e-Commerce by Micro Enterprises” has been introduced. This new component includes providing financial assistance for selling products or services by Micro Enterprises  through e-commerce portals.
• Portals of National Small Industries Corporation : NSIC is operating MSME Global Mart portal. This is a non-transactional B2B Portal which facilitates e-Marketing support to MSME's. The portal provides information of business, technology and finance and also exhibits the core competence of Indian SMEs.
• E-commerce portal of Khadi and Village Industries Commission : KVIC has developed an online portal https://www.kviconline.gov.in for selling Khadi products added by Khadi Gramodyog Bhavan, New Delhi.
Ministry of Tribal Affairs has launched an e-market place www.tribesindia.com portal through Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited . It has forged tie ups with various leading e-Commerce platforms and is on-boarding tribal artisans with their products for online sales.
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Som Parkash, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Prime Minister's Office
Under Rozgar Mela, PM to distribute about 71,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in Government departments and organisations on 20th January
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will distribute about 71,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in Government departments and organisations, on 20th January, 2023 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing. Prime Minister will also address these appointees on the occasion.
The Rozgar Mela is a step towards fulfilment of the commitment of the Prime Minister to accord highest priority to employment generation. The Rozgar Mela is expected to act as a catalyst in further employment generation and provide meaningful opportunities to the youth for their empowerment and participation in national development.
The new recruits, selected from across the country, will join various positions/posts under Government of India like Junior Engineers, loco pilots, Technicians, Inspector, Sub Inspectors, Constable, stenographer, Junior Accountant, Grameen Dak Sevak, Income Tax Inspector, Teacher, Nurse, Doctor, Social security Officer, PA, MTS, among others.
The experience of newly inducted officials in learning from the Karmayogi Prarambh module, will also be shared during this Rozgar the programme. Karmayogi Prarambh module is an online orientation course for all new appointees in various Government departments.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
MoU between the India and Bangladesh on the establishment of a framework of cooperation in the area of trade remedial measures
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its ex post facto approval to the Memorandum of Understanding  between the Director General of Trade Remedies, Republic of India and the Bangladesh Trade & Tariff Commission, People's Republic of Bangladesh on the establishment of a framework of cooperation in the area of trade remedial measures signed on 27th March, 2021 at Dhaka.
Objectives
The primary objective of the MOU is to promote cooperation between the two countries in the area of Trade Remedies, covering the broad activities related to exchange of information, undertaking capacity building activities and activities in accordance with various provisions of World Trade Organization in the area of anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures in bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh.
The MOU seeks to foster better cooperation between the relevant authorities of both the countries so as to discourage unfair trade practices and promote rule based bilateral trading between the two countries.
Department of Space
Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh says, India’s maiden human space flight “Gaganyaan” is targeted to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024
The astronaut designates for human space flight mission are identified and are currently undergoing their mission specific training at Bengaluru
Union Minister of State  Science & Technology; Minister of State  Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today informed that India’s maiden human space flight ‘H1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today, Dr Jitendra Singh said, in view of the paramount importance of crew safety, two Test Vehicle missions are planned before the ‘G1’ mission to demonstrate the performance of crew escape system and parachute-based deceleration system for different flight conditions.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the uncrewed ‘G1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the last quarter of 2023 followed by the second uncrewed ‘G2’ mission in the second quarter of 2024, before the final human space flight ‘H1’ mission in the fourth quarter of 2024.
He said, the first uncrewed flight of Gaganyaan programme i.e., ‘G1’ mission is aimed at validating the performance of Human rated launch vehicle, Orbital module propulsion system, mission management, communication system and recovery operations. The mission will carry a humanoid as payload.
The Minister said, the astronaut designates for human space flight mission are identified and are currently undergoing their mission specific training at Bengaluru. First semester of Astronaut training has been completed wherein they have undergone course modules on Theoretical basics, Space medicine, Launch vehicles, spacecraft system and ground support infrastructure. Regular physical fitness sessions, aeromedical training and flying practice are also part of crew training. Corresponding evaluation and assessment activities have also been completed. The second semester of crew training is currently in progress.
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